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May 1, 6:52pm
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Psychological and emotional pain is just like physical pain, it is natures way of telling us that something about us or that we're doing is wrong and/or needs attention. Without physical pain, our species would not had survived.
It's a wonder that our psychological and emotional pain is in some ways and often all the result of the way we feel about life in this world as we know it, and we escape the reality of that with drugs and television-what perhaps might as well be viewed as insanity which ironically is regarded as normalcy-what we have defined as the opposite of insane, insane being somebody suffering from psychosis, psychosis being a detachment from reality. (The sane are insane)
We make titles for ourselves and create societies, we give ourselves purpose and refuse to see the base of things. The truth of our perceptions and the information gathered around it, a series of building blocks - a chain.
We forget to realize in our daily lives that the world as we know it, the societies, structures, technologies and cultures, are a result of our artificial doing.
What's worse is that we don't realize that our perception builds our understanding of this universe. A animal, a pet dog for example, can see the door knob you turn to open the door and let him out and reach that knob himself, but does he let himself out once you've demonstrated it? The mind builds frames for itself to avoid having to face what it does not know and what it may never be able to comprehend, and it builds that individual and the society struck by it their very understanding of reality and life.
To say that what we do not know is more significant than what we do would outrage the psyches of many people. To propose that the universe we perceive could perhaps be entirely different, that so many things may exist right before our eyes that we can not see or know of and that conformity and normalcy are a detriment to the species. It is not in our nature to accept the idea that life can have purpose while being pointless or that a life spent as a successful business person or celebrity is truly of no greater ultimate value than a bum eating from a trash can. That even in science, that unless your specific work leads to the ultimate understanding of the universe as a link in the chain, it is pointless beyond our worldly application and your earthly reward -- The species is still going to die.
The universe may not know itself, or maybe it does. It seems superior to us, but we have decided that only we can think, that what we know is truth and what we perceive is real to the universe as it is to us. The idea of a person born blind, deaf and mute being a genius is logically unknowable to us with certainty because there exists no bridge in which we can communicate, therefor so is the idea that the universe could be intelligent and knowing, and that things could exist within our surroundings, perhaps of a infinite number of dimensions that we cannot perceive. That perhaps even we are sharing this very space we occupy at this moment with a infinite number of other beings we do not know of, just as we now know we share them with a great many beings that exist within our body just as we exist within the universe.
That a madman can perceive a entirely different world, as a person on LSD could, may be evidence that the mind can be defective or impaired, but also that their are more than one or few ways to perceive existence. The societal norm will decide which perceptions are accurate to base judgment on by what they can know and believe, based on what they are taught and perceive.
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Portrait of an INTP
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Apr 26, 11:33am
13 reviews
psychology
•http://www.personalitypage.com/INTP.html
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From the page: "INTPs live in the world of theoretical possibilities. They see everything in terms of how it could be improved, or what it could be turned into. They live primarily inside their own minds, having the ability to analyze difficult problems, identify patterns, and come up with logical explanations. They seek clarity in everything, and are therefore driven to build knowledge. They are the "absent-minded professors", who highly value intelligence and the ability to apply logic to theories to find solutions. They typically are so strongly driven to turn problems into logical explanations, that they live much of their lives within their own heads, and may not place as much importance or value on the external world. Their natural drive to turn theories into concrete understanding may turn into a feeling of personal responsibility to solve theoretical problems, and help society move towards a higher understanding."
You just basically described something that psychiatry regards in the realm of a schizo-spectrum illness. Let's all please see this for what it is. Read my other reviews to better understand what I mean by that.
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Hell Is Other People?
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Apr 10, 5:18pm
1 review
philosophy
•http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commen...
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I cant bother to type a review right now cause my SOC is all messed up, so I'll just type this so it ends up on my page to remind me later to do it.
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YouTube - Lobotomy - PBS documentary, on Walter J. Freeman
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Apr 6, 2:24am
1 review
psychiatry, video, lobotomy, neuroleptics, anti-psychotics
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0aNIL...
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Only the technologies have changed but it is fundamentally the same today in 2008 as it has ever been. Start from the base and follow the string to here and you can begin to see things for what they are. From the day and age when the socially unconformable were ostracized or killed to the day where their brains are disabled and damaged. See it for what it is.
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amphetamines . com : The Price of Speed
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Apr 6, 1:51am
11 reviews
drugs
•http://www.amphetamines.com/meth.html
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And given to children by psychiatrists and their parents. Well at least they are still far less harmful than the neuroleptics, which sadly however are quite often used in cocktails with them or after to deal with the amphetamines current and protracted "side effects".
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Censored argument. |
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Apr 1, 5:09am
1 review
mental-health, psychiatry, psychiatric-drugs
•http://www.freewebs.com/m1thotyn/
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It's a matter of perception, logic and ethics. To never let the structures of knowledge defeat the principles of truth and intelligence. To see things for what they are and operate only on what you and all others around you know, to leave no room for the operation of some factions to control or influence others with the false claim of factuality and arguments centered around their own created knowledge. It's dangerous to accept things as true that are not and begin implementing them in your life and the way you treat others. This is why psychiatry should be outlawed and particular psychiatrists (ones who drug children) be punished for the suffering they cause and lives that they wreck, such as mine. This is nothing to do with Tom Cruise or Lord Xenu. This is the reality of truth, not the study of it. This is science -- not scientology -- and the applications of the practices of unproven hypotheses on human beings in our society involving the schools and courts founded on the use of psychoactive drugs that are disabling and injurious even once you're off them and sometimes even lethal. To think about this in a even sadder perspective of mental illness in general, such view and treatment of it is the eliminating of differences amongst us through the treatment of the thoughts and feelings that bother us that have always been and are characteristic of the elements that make us human, a domain once belonged to religion and philosophy; not exactly the things you want to teach a "crazy" or 9-5er. It is the supporting of a uniform society where any inability or refusal to function within a structure is considered an illness, without question to the structure or value of the differences of that individual responsible for that inability or refusal. It is the spear of the modern ad hominem that leaves my arguments dead and the destruction of our psychological value and our values of each others and a means of legitimized oppression and civil and human rights violation. I must not be the only victim of psychiatric drugs as a child, who's very life was wrecked by them and even today schools are forcing parents to use psychoactive drugs including the neuroleptics with the same threat presented to my family - "Your child has been diagnosed with a medical illness and if you refuse treatment for that illness then that's child abuse and social services will take him away." This will never end until we end it, and that will never happen until we see it for what it is.
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YouTube - Schizophrenia
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Mar 28, 1:35am
2 reviews
psychiatry, schizophrenia
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jYqS...
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The icon of biological psychiatry (Fuller Torrey) had declared to the medical community (He's not a scientist) and had published in psychiatric literature (as many of his things are) that the structural brain abnormality for schizophrenia had been found, declaring it a legitimate brain disease (Although he does this even when he has no evidence because his bias lies in needing a biological factor to pardon his family's reputation for his sister being schizophrenic) like multiple sclerosis and shortly after scientists discovered that the brain abnormalities he found were actually caused by the drugs used to treat schizophrenics, as they were recreated in monkeys. This is the way bio-psychiatry has always been, and why it should be outlawed. Schizophrenia is only a clinical and societal impression and no I am not a scientologist, and neither are many of the people you may find at the top of this argument so let's forget Tom Cruise for a moment and think.
Read "Blaming the brain" By Elliot Valenstein (Ph.d neuroscientist) for a good explanation of how the biological psychiatry profession got here, "Mad in America" by Robert Whitaker for some perspective of how psychiatry practices. "Madness and civilization" by Michel Foucault for some historical perspectives of how we've got here at all and anything by Thomas Szasz for some logical, political and analogical perspective (You can just read his wikipedia article and perhaps know all you need to know from him)
I believe that psychiatry should be outlawed, those practicing it be imprisoned and people having anything to do with TAC, NIMH and the APA be imprisoned. This is no different now on schizos than it had ever been with blacks or gays who were also struck by that profession and its supporters in no different way. They medicalize symptoms characteristic of that people, provide pseudoscientific rhetoric to make them the specialist to treat it, and apply whatever treatment they have for it at that time until they are stopped (They are most empowered today by the drug industries). Throughout practically all the time they have operated they have had a hypothesis or a theory and attest that what they don't know will eventually be found to justify what they do and tell the public -- when fought back against hard enough by oppositional claims that they can no longer sneak away from -- that science is a work in progress and reassert their scientific validity to the masses most of which believe to be completely unaffected by it anyway or may even dislike the so called crazies and approve of bio-psychiatry and neuroleptic drug use even knowing its truths.
Throughout its whole history psychiatry has been on a foundation of poor logic, unscrupulous practice and social, political and financial influence and for this it should no longer be tolerated. It is not scrupulous medicine and it is not derived of genuine scientific principle, It is a way to discredit and control the types of people who do not fit within the structure of society. It must be seen for what it is so long as human beings taught as children they were living in a free and triumphant society are being oppressed, controlled and even tortured and harmed on neuroleptic drugs for believably supposed medical issues. This is not just a medical or existentialism issue, It's a civil rights, human rights and matter of truth issue that needs to be taken very seriously, very quickly and by everybody.
For the suffering I and many others have endured at the feet of biological psychiatry and psychiatric drugs -- as well as the social and civil difficulties and psychological trauma -- societies ignorance is no excuse and their reluctance to even study the topic is a responsible factor in the suffering and a invalidation of the hardships endured by those labeled mentally ill and treated that way.
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Schizophrenia Resource
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Mar 26, 2:06pm
3 reviews
psychiatry, society, metal-health, diagnosis, nimh
•http://www.psychiatry24x7.com/homes/s...
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Read Blaming The Brain, By Elliot S. Valenstein, Ph.d. And The Medicaliziation Of Everyday Life By Thomas Szasz.
These are dangerous lies. Neuroleptics, originally referred to as "chemical straight jackets" and "chemical lobotomies" by their early enthusiasts who used them to quiet crowded mental hospitals, are nothing but accidentally discovered chemicals that disable and damage the brain. The effect that neuroleptics have on behavior is that they disable the brain so profoundly that it loses many of its normal biological functions and must rely more on primary survival function, creating a passive indifferent state of mind in the user. You get the same results with a baseball bat.
Wikipedia: Neuroleptic side effects
mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/neuroleptic-brain-damag... [mindfreedom.org/kb/psychiatric-drugs/antipsychotics/neuroleptic-brain-damag...]
""After dopamine was acknowledged to be a separate neurotransmitter, several lines of evidence suggested that it might play the critical role in schizophrenia's etiology and treatment. From the outset, it was observed that practically all of the available anti psychotic drugs produced motor symptoms that resembled parkinsonism. When it was discovered that parkinsons patients were suffering from a dopamine deficiency, it was reasonable to hypothesize that anti psychotic drugs must be blocking dopamine activity. These observations led directly to the hypothesis that schizophrenics must suffer from excessive dopamine activity, which anti psychotics could correct." Elliot Valenstein, Blaming the brain (1998)."
That's Elliot Valenstein, Ph.d neuroscientist. It is a scientist making these observations that accidentally discovered psychoactive chemicals laid and enforced the foundation of the entire biopsychiatric profession in medicine, and with a market to consumers, government (suppressing civil unrest, "helping" the homeless by putting them on SSI, doping them up in group homes. -- and invasion onto civil liberties, a psychiatrist has more power over you than a police officer... Bet? Want to be a part of a scientific experiment?), and of course some patients themselves, because the simplified biochemical hypothesis makes it easy to just say "No need to investigate, what a relief." and the family members who drug "schizo's/biploars", they will buy it just to sleep at night but I cant doubt that they love the peace and quiet.
They do not treat schizophrenia or pyschosis. They are chemical restraints. Schizophrenia is NOT a disease, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that it is that cant trace back to the drug treatments themselves -- The structural abnormalities found on the PET scan, can be re-created in monkeys given neuroleptics! Similar, hard to distinguish abnormalities are also caused by alcohol, and as you would read in Valensteins book, experience can change brain anatomy as well.
I am so enraged. Everybody involved in these dishonest campaigns to oppress and control minorities should be stopped and the public should be informed as to the facts of these matters so people can begin to see these things for what they are.
This whole site is full of pathetic lies, but the one I like the most is this "Commitment to stay on treatment often leads to successful recovery in schizophrenia patients."
Is that why recovery rates for schizophrenia are 0% in countries who use neuroleptic drugs vs 30-45% in countries who don't as reported by the world health organization? Read Robert Whitaker's "Mad in America". But perhaps the real recovery rate with neuroleptics is 100% if recovery means that they are no longer a problem for society or their care givers. You'd might as well just go back to lobotomy to keep from wasting so much tax and insurance dollars on drugs.
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Amazon.com: Mithotyn's review of Blaming the Brain : The Truth About Drugs ...
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Mar 26, 2:05pm
2 reviews
psychiatry, science, elliot-valenstein
•http://www.amazon.com/review/R1G6JAYH...
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My review for "Blaming the brain".
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Researchers may have found test for depression (3/16/2008)
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Mar 26, 2:04pm
11 reviews
drugs, mental-health, psychiatry, psychiatric-drugs
•http://www.brainmysteries.com/Researc...
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I wonder what sort of robot you'd need to be to take something as complexly unknowable as human feeling and begin trying to explain it so simply, as a matter of fluids and chemicals, electrical signals and processes... But, the idea looms that if we ever truly did understand what feelings really are, and how the brain really works in regards to that and our personality, then we'd no longer even be human. It used to be that life was thought of as a journey, and our minds and personalities developed around our experiences and that put a emphasis on creating the right environments to live and grow in. That is still the reality of truth, but not where we're heading. We're heading to a world that can crumble around us - like a man living in a dirty city with no jobs - and the problem be seen as the brain and treated with a drug to just change the perception of it - like the aforementioned man becoming an alcoholic - Really, how can these people claim to know so much at any stage? I mean, they were stuck on serotonin when that was their belief, and now it could turn to this... They don't even understand the very entity they are trying to explain nor do they ever factor in all the complexities surrounding the issue itself. It's perhaps logically impossible that we could know our feelings the way we know math and bridge the two, while still maintaining human qualities. It must be why psychiatry's methods of medical treatment all focus around disabling brains with drugs, reducing the brain to a point where it's as simple as they understand it.
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